ZACH GAGE
Glaciers
March 25 - May 7, 2016
Postmasters Gallery presents Glaciers, the first solo exhibition by the American artist Zach Gage, developed from
his series of human-query works (2009-16).
Zach Gage (b.1985) is a conceptual artist, game designer, programmer, and educator from New York City.
His work often explores the powerful intersection of systems and social dynamics, through both interrogating
existing systems in digital spaces, and framing entirely new systems through games.
Zach Gage's Glaciers (2015-16), a series of digital poems-as-wall-clocks grew out of his explorations in slow
generative art and his longterm obsession with trying to make large-scale data systems more accessible by focusing
not on their broad statistical natures, but instead on finding their humanity with narrowly tailored queries.
Each Glacier is a unique poem generated via the top three autocompleted results for a specific search query on
Google, presented on an e-ink screen. While they appear static on the wall, each actually refreshes itself once a day.
While this construction process means that the poems may change, because of the immense amount of dataflow
constructing the most popular autocompletes, it's likely that they will not be altered for years or even decades.
Still, one day you'll wake up, the poem will be different, the long moment passed.
The show will also feature two of his earlier human-query works, his pioneering twitter bot Best Day Ever (2009)
and his twitter-based fortune teller #fortune (2014-15).
Zach Gage is an Eyebeam Alumni, Apple Design and Game of The Year Award Winner, and BAFTA Nominee. He has exhibited
internationally at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the New York MoMA, The Japanese American National
Museum in Los Angeles, XOXO Festival in Portland, FutureEverything in Manchester, The Centre for Contemporary Art
Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, and in Apple stores worldwide. His work has been featured in several online and
printed publications, including The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, EDGE Magazine, Rhizome.org,
Neural Magazine, New York Magazine, and Das Spiel und seine Grenzen (Springer Press). In games, he is best known
for SpellTower, Ridiculous Fishing, Lose/Lose, and Sage Solitaire.
Available to purchase online!!
Zach Gage
Installation View
2016
Zach Gage
Installation View
2016
Zach Gage
Best Day Ever
2009, 2010, 2106
custom software, custom hardware, modified public tweets
28 x 4.5 x 2.5 inches
Zach Gage
hate to talk...
2015/2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
should i save...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
#Fortune
2016
2013, 2106
custom software, custom hardware, modified public tweets
12 x 6.5 4 inches
Zach Gage
#Fortune (detail)
2016
2013, 2106
custom software, custom hardware, modified public tweets
12 x 6.5 4 inches
Zach Gage
is it scary to...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
money likes...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
i'm scared of...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
how to...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
why...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
should i keep...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
against the law to...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
i search on...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
he says...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
all i ever want to do is...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
does he want to... does she want to...(diptych)
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
I never want to...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
my superpower is...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
where can i meet...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches
Zach Gage
tell me...
2016
custom wood enclosure, Raspberry Pi, AdaFruit Pervasive Visions 2.7" display kit,
ribbon cable extender, Edimax 150mbps adaptor, 5.1v 6' microsub power cable, 10ft premium ultraflat cat 6 patch cable, 16 gb SanDisk MicroSD card
7 x 5 x 2 inches